The Fry Chronicles (58 page)

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): acquires and broadcasts
The Cellar Tapes
,
197–8
,
210
,
214–20
; recording methods,
218–20
; Light Entertainment,
296
; declines
The Crystal Cube
,
297–8
; radio,
325–35
; Richard Armitage’s influence on,
376

British Pipesmokers’ Council,
55

Broadbent, Jim,
353–4

Broadcasting House, London,
328

Broadhurst, Nicholas,
254–5

Broadsheet
(student newspaper),
134
,
142

Bron, Eleanor,
336

Bronowski, Jacob,
182

Brooke, Justin,
95

Brooks, Mel,
423

Brooks, Ray,
291

Broughton, Pip,
127
,
135

Brown, Tina,
309

Bunce (schoolfellow),
17–18

Burns, Nica,
199

Burr, Raymond,
416–17

Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk,
9–10

Bush, Kate,
355

Byrne, Patsy,
382
,
384

Cagney, James,
410

Caine, (Sir) Michael,
306

Callow, Simon,
250
,
353–4
;
Being an Actor
,
353

Cambridge Mummers (drama club),
95
,
124
,
127
,
145
,
152–5
,
182–3
,
186
,
190

Cambridge University: SF wins scholarship to (Queens’ College),
30
; image,
65–6
; SF attends,
65
,
72–84
,
89–90
,
106–7
,
110–13
,
122
,
149
,
157–61
; appeal to SF,
69–72
; collegiate life and system,
73–6
; Queens’ College,
75–8
,
113
,
116
; admits women,
158–60
; drama clubs and theatrical activities,
94–7
,
106–9
,
113–16
,
152
; Union,
101–2
; Blues and Half Blues,
102–3
; May Ball,
104–5
,
116
,
119
,
122–3
,
190
; terms,
105–6
; Head of the River competition,
110
; May Week,
110–12
,
188
,
190
,
192
,
195
; examination system,
122
,
149–52
; SF’s graduation ceremony,
195
; SF leaves,
201
; Mark Boxer at,
307–8
;
see also
Footlights Club

Carlton Club, London,
378–82

Carr, Allen,
62

Cassidy, Seamus,
391

Cats
(stage musical),
260
,
267

Cellar Tapes, The
(revue),
192
,
195–9
,
202
,
210
,
214
,
218–20
,
249
,
280

Champix (drug; varenicline),
62

Channel 4: launched,
245

Chapman, Graham,
71
,
121

Chariots of Fire
(film),
145–9
,
186

Charles, Prince of Wales,
201

Checkpoint
(radio programme),
331

Chekhov, Anton,
257–8

Cherry, Simon,
143
,
149
,
152–3

Cherubs (Queens’ College club),
105
,
131–2
,
160–1
,
195

Chichester Festival (1984),
271
,
325
,
335–9

Chou Lai,
405

Church, Tony,
256–7

Churchill, Sir Winston,
57

Cimino, Michael,
145

Citizen Smith
(TV programme),
215

City Limits
(magazine),
208
,
299

Clarke, Alan,
249

Clarke, John Cooper,
114–15

Clarke, Kenneth,
101

Clary, Julian,
392

Cleese, John,
70–1
,
121
,
262
,
271
,
390

Cocteau, Jean,
7

Coe, Sebastian, Baron,
147

coffee,
20–1

Cohan, George M.,
410

Collinge, Roger,
325

Colour Supplement, The
(radio programme),
330
,
332

Coltrane, Robbie: in
Five Go Mad in Dorset
,
214
,
245
; background and character,
230–1
; plays in
Alfresco
,
239
,
241
,
298
; and motor cars,
369
; seduction technique,
402–3

Comedy Store
see
London Comedy Store

Comic Relief,
390

Comic Strip Presents … Five Go Mad in Dorset
(TV show),
245

Conley, Brian,
415

Connolly, Billy,
391

Coogan, Steve,
369

Cook, Peter,
70–1
,
121
,
209
,
271

Cook, Roger,
331–2

Cooke, Alistair,
95
,
182–5

Cooper, Tommy,
207
,
209
,
346

Corbett, Ronnie,
209

Coren, Alan,
300
,
305
,
317–18

Coren, Giles,
319

Corvo, Baron (Frederick Rolfe),
26
;
Hadrian the Seventh
(stage version),
106

Cosmo, Tony,
237

Cotton, Bill,
258
,
376

Covent Garden Opera,
165

Coward, Sir Noël,
1
,
57

Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury,
70

Crocker, Jo (
née
Fry; SF’s sister),
134
,
156

Cromwell, Oliver,
70

Cronyn, Hume,
417

Crosby, Annette,
336
,
344

Cross, Ben,
147

Cryer, Barry,
210

Crystal Cube, The
(proposed TV programme),
297
,
409

Cundall Manor (prep school), North Yorkshire,
31–43
,
105–6
,
123

Curtis, Richard: as Oxford man,
71
; performs with Rowan Atkinson in Edinburgh,
130
; writes and performs for
Not the Nine O’Clock News
,
207
,
209
; collaborates on
Blackadder
,
372–5
,
381
,
383–4
,
388–90
; proposes Comic Relief,
390